Velleman: we respect agents because of their Kantian dignity/rationality, and we can't trade off our sacred value to e.g. stop our suffering
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@antidemblog@St_Rev problem is this ignores the cost/benefit analysis - costs of staying alive can be HUGE compared to EV of poss. solution3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@antidemblog It's ugly and nearly impossible to work out in practice but it has the advantage of not being a fucking lie1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing@antidemblog Important to remember humans have hyperbolic time preference discounting thx to that Bitch Evolution1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@MorlockP@sarahdoingthing@antidemblog Hyperbolic discounting isn't actually irrational in real (non-casino) contexts.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing@antidemblog Hyperbolic discounting obv. makes sense in some scenarios else we'd not've evolved it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
2/ @St_Rev @sarahdoingthing @antidemblog ...but deciding to kill self re relationship blues, or bad grades, etc. != evolutionary scenario.
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